"Oh my God..."
"That poor Miss Li..."
After reading the notebook Bo Yi had brought back, the players were clearly furious. "And they called her an 'ungrateful wretch'... Is this village seriously sick in the head?!"
"What century do they think this is, still practicing these vile feudal customs?!"
Unlike the other indignant players, Song Yunyi picked up on something else and murmured, "No wonder these villagers hate us so much..." At first, he had thought the villagers simply disliked outsiders. He had never expected... that it was because they were college students!
"Then this 'Lady'..." Chu Youyi began hesitantly. "Are we still going to worship her?" No matter how she looked at it, this "Lady"... hardly seemed like anything good... But the instance's objective...
Besides, Bo Yi had just explained his conclusion that "they were out of time," so to clear the instance as quickly as possible, they needed to complete its objective: "Worship the Lady." Yet the clues they had now obtained suggested that the "Lady" in the temple was no legitimate deity. Who knew what would happen if they worshiped her? Knowing how this game operated, Chu Youyi suspected that the moment they worshiped the Lady, Miss Li-who, according to the notebook, appeared during the worship ceremony-would almost certainly come after them.
But if they did not worship the Lady, they could not clear the instance-
They were trapped in a vicious cycle!
"Yes."
"Of course we're going to worship..."
Bo Yi looked toward the Lady's Temple, his gaze icy. "But as for which 'Lady' we worship..."
His murmured words faded into the air. Utterly confused, Chu Youyi looked up and was about to ask him what he meant when Bo Yi suddenly beckoned, calling all the players over.
After the night passed, the villagers returned